PARIS: The woman behind France's answer to the #MeToo campaign exposing male abusive behaviour on Wednesday faces the verdict in a defamation case brought by a media executive she accused of making lewd and sexist remarks.
Brion, a media consultant and former head of TV channel Equidia, acknowledges making inappropriate remarks for which he had apologised by text message the day after. In the civil suit, Brion is asking for 50,000 euros in damages, 15,000 euros in legal fees and the deletion of the tweet mentioning his name.Muller, who works for a French media industry publication, wrote on her Twitter account that the verdict would be announced at 1300 GMT and she would hold a news conference at her lawyer's office half an hour later.Muller, for her part, defended her right to freedom of expression and said her tweet meant sexist insults would be taken seriously.
The post led to an outpouring of tales of harassment and assault, which were hailed as helping to confront a culture of permissiveness in France towards unwanted advances.
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